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AT&T yesterday offered to follow the FCC's old net neutrality rules for three years if the government approves its acquisition of DirecTV.
Even though the FCC's 2010 Open Internet Order was largely overturned by a federal appeals court this year, AT&T said its merger with DirecTV would come with a "continued commitment for three years after closing to the FCC's Open Internet protections established in 2010, irrespective of whether the FCC re-establishes such protections for other industry participants following the DC Circuit Court of Appeals vacating those rules."But AT&T hasn't said exactly how it interprets those rules. Judging by statements made by Comcast, AT&T could argue that the 2010 rules allow the controversial Internet "fast lanes" in which Web services pay Internet service providers for priority access to consumers over the network's last mile.
The AT&T proposal is modeled after a seven-year commitment Comcast made when it purchased NBCUniversal in 2011. Comcast essentially agreed to follow the 2010 Open Internet Order until 2018 regardless of whether it held up in court.
But in two statements last week, Comcast Executive VP David Cohen said he doesn't think the 2010 order prohibits fast lanes or paid prioritization.
"I believe that whatever it is, a fast lane, paid prioritization, whatever you want to call it, has been completely legal for 15 or 20 years," Cohen said in a talk with investors (transcript). "Before they were [called] open Internet, they were not covered in [former FCC Chairman] Michael Powell's principles... [T]hey were not covered in the 2010 order, although the chairman said at the time that he would likely view them skeptically and was sort of a warning to everyone, be careful what you do in this space, whatever it is."
The 2010 order banned discrimination and said paid prioritization would likely not be allowed. "[B]roadband providers that sought to offer pay-for-priority services would have an incentive to limit the quality of service provided to non-prioritized traffic," the rules state. "For a number of reasons... a commercial arrangement between a broadband provider and a third party to directly or indirectly favor some traffic over other traffic in the broadband Internet access service connection to a subscriber of the broadband provider (i.e. 'pay for priority') would raise significant cause for concern. ... [A]s a general matter, it is unlikely that pay for priority would satisfy the 'no unreasonable discrimination' standard."
There are exceptions for "reasonable network management" and "specialized services," including the ISP's own VoIP and video offerings. Analyst Craig Moffett said to Cohen that these allowances could be seen as "the same thing" as paid prioritization. Cohen said the order "did not prohibit paid prioritization. So whatever it is, we are allowed to do it."
Cohen repeated in a follow-up blog post that fast lanes or paid prioritization "were not covered by the 2010 Open Internet Order and that, therefore, I did not believe that they were illegal."
Comcast's NBC agreement with the US government has a carveout for specialized services, which may support Cohen's argument. The agreement says, "If Comcast offers any Specialized Service that makes content from one or more third parties available to... its subscribers, Comcast shall allow any other comparable Person to be included in a similar Specialized Service on a nondiscriminatory basis." The agreement broadly defines Specialized Services as "any service provided over the same last-mile facilities used to deliver Internet Access Service other than Internet Access Services," regulated telecommunications services, or Comcast's VoIP service.
Despite Comcast's views, Cohen said the company has not offered paid prioritization and has no plans to do so. We asked a Comcast spokesperson to further explain Comcast's interpretation of its net neutrality commitments, but the spokesperson simply repeated what Cohen had already said.
So what about AT&T? The company did not clarify what it means by following the 2010 Open Internet Order in either its SEC filing or a conference call it held with investors today. We've asked an AT&T spokesperson for an explanation but haven't received an answer yet.
Network neutrality advocates generally argue that letting ISPs sell priority access to deep-pocketed Web services will disadvantage smaller competitors and give ISPs incentive to not invest in infrastructure that carries non-prioritized traffic. But like Comcast, AT&T could argue that it can follow net neutrality rules and still charge Web services for fast lanes.
"If all they're saying is they'll follow the 2010 rules, I'm sure it's their own interpretation of what those rules allow," Senior Staff Attorney John Bergmayer of consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge told Ars. "It's probably in its interest to keep things as vague as possible."


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SAN FRANCISCO - Melky Cabrera will receive his World Series ring this week when the San Francisco Giants make a two-game interleague stop in Toronto to face his Blue Jays.
San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said Sunday he intends to speak with Cabrera and thank him for his contributions to the reigning World Series champions. Cabrera was suspended for 50 games last Aug. 15 for a positive testosterone test.
"I'm appreciative of him being here and playing hard every day," Bochy said Sunday. "What's happened, happened. That's behind us. I do know he's a good person, he is, and he was a good teammate. I will thank him for that."
Bochy will present Cabrera with his sparkly Tiffany & Co. ring, probably before the series opener Tuesday night.
Cabrera was the MVP of last year's All-Star game. He was batting an NL-leading .346 with 11 home runs and 60 RBIs over 113 games in his first season with San Francisco when he was suspended. He asked MLB for a rules change that disqualified him from the batting title, saying it would be a tainted achievement.
Though he was eligible to play, Cabrera was left off the post-season roster — a decision made in late September before the playoffs began. The slugger's ban ended with the completion of a division series victory against Cincinnati.
For the Giants, this will be their first face-to-face meeting with Cabrera since last August. Many players haven't even spoken to him despite efforts to get in touch.
Bochy, for one, insists there are no hard feelings now that everybody has moved forward. And the Giants did fine without Cabrera, sweeping the Detroit Tigers in four games last fall to capture a second championship in three years.
In November, Cabrera signed a $16 million, two-year deal with Toronto.
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Microsoft could have an early advantage over competitors IBM and Oracle as some software companies begin shifting pricing to accommodate servers with multicore processors, analysts said.
IBM recently created a ripple of confusion in the industry when it announced it would one day charge for software based on how fast it runs, not the number of processor cores on which it's running. The company created a new license pricing unit called "processor value unit" and will set software prices this way beginning with the release of Intel Corp.'s quad-core Xeon processor, which is expected to be available later this year.
For example, dual-core Power5 chips will be rated at 200 processor value units (100 per core), while x86 processors will score 100, whether they have one core or two. Full details of the new processor rating system can be found at: http://www.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/services/cwepassport.nsf/wdocs/pvu_licensing_for_customers
IBM's move follows Oracle's pricing change of last December, which accommodates multicore processors and came after customers responded negatively to an earlier plan by the company to charge for software per processor core. Details of Oracle's software pricing can be found at: http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/multicore_faq.pdf
Microsoft, however, will continue to charge per processor for software, not per core or by some new way of measuring processor performance. The company also allows customers to purchase some of its software by buying Client Access Licenses (CALs) for employees who will be using the software.
"Moore's Law shouldn't mean more expensive software," said Andy Lees, corporate vice president of server and tools marketing at Microsoft, referring to the observation by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that microprocessor power will double every 18 months without raising the cost of manufacturing.
"Multicore is just a way of making processors more powerful. We embrace it because it's good for the customer."
The advent of chips that have multicores has muddied the waters of software pricing, and it's not likely to get easier any time soon. Software vendors have traditionally priced software per processor, but as server processors now have two cores, and someday will have four, eight and even 16 cores, one processor will be far more powerful, faster and able to handle bigger workloads. Software vendors have been grappling with how to accommodate this transition for some time.
Julie Giera, vice president with Forrester Research, said IBM's new pricing model will be "messy" for customers, at least at first. She said until customers have first-hand experience with the new pricing and how it affects the price of software they purchase, Microsoft's continuation of its traditional pricing plan will provide them with a more straightforward option.
"It appears as though Microsoft does have the advantage as far as simplicity because they're charging by processor," she said. "You don't have to go to a chart [and figure it out]."
Whether IBM's pricing will be more expensive is still unclear, Giera added. At this point, it appears that "as these machines get bigger, your IBM software prices are going to go up," she said.
Al Gillen, research vice president of system software at analyst firm IDC, said IBM's new pricing could be problematic for customers because the vendor, not the customer, is in control of defining how much a processor is worth in regard to software pricing. This means IBM could change software prices at will.
"As soon as a new processor comes out that delivers higher performance than the one you're using, you may have to pay more to utilize that because they might change the definition of the processing units," he said. Of course, this all remains to be seen since IBM has not made its pricing change yet, Gillen added.
Still, though Microsoft's licensing may be simpler in the short term, IBM's might make more sense in the long run as pricing for both software and server capacity moves universally to a more utility-based pricing model, he said. "It could be that all vendors will do what IBM is doing at the end of the day," Gillen said.
Software pricing on dual-core and multicore servers is likely to become even more complex as more customers move to using virtualization, which allows multiple versions of OSes to run on one server, analysts said.


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Absolute nightmare of a job :( Spent 4 hours yesterday trying to get this bl##dy spring on, gave up in the end 'cos there's not much skin left on my wrist and knuckles now If the steering column is adjusted so that its all the way up and out, the very top of the clutch pedal (where one end of the spring locates) can be viewed through the gap between the column and the bottom of the dash panel; however I couldn't figure out where the other end of the spring locates. Despite the aid of a decent torch and plenty of patience, I was unable to 'feel' for the correct location. Any further tips or advice would be much appreciated ;) Anyone fancy a job????
Cheers for the replies folks :) Went to another dealer today and managed to get a print-out of the clutch pedal diagram from the dealer's EPC, which shows the location of the spring, however it doesn't look easy to get to :( Also spoke to a technician, who tells me that Ford allow them 4 hours labour, as its a 'nightmare' of a job to do without splitting the pedal and master cylinder :o Phoned the original dealer back, only to be told that the quote of £70 labour was incorrect, and that it should be £240 Day off tomorrow, so going to give it a bash myself and see how I get on.
Clutch Pedal Return Spring
Gogs67 posted a topic in Ford Focus ClubHi to all I have a '55' Focus Zetec 1.6 petrol, last week I found a small-ish broken spring lying in my driver's footwell. Took it to my local dealer, who confirmed it's the return spring for my clutch pedal, told me it was a fairly common problem. They charged me £3.89 for a new one, however having had a look in the footwell I can't figure out where the new spring goes. Also, access is tight to say the least Has anyone replaced this spring? If so, is there an easy way to do it? Any advice will be gratefully received. Also, a diagram or photo would be great too. Many thanks in advance :) P.S. Dealer service department want £70 labour to fit the spring, told me that a 'special tool is required, sir'. Aye right, just like the buttons on the back of my head!!!! :D
Focus II Interior Door Panel Removal
Gogs67 replied to Gogs67's topic in Ford Focus ClubGreat stuff Steve, many thanks for this :)
Sat Nav Updates
Gogs67 replied to Gogs67's topic in Audio & ElectronicsThanks for the reply. I was ideally hoping to get away from the 66.com mapping software which is in this unit, as its not the best. I've had a look at some of the comments on the rac site and most folk tend to agree that its a bit iffy. Does anyone know if there are any methods of putting another sat nav software, i.e. Tom Tom, Navteq, etc, on to my unit?
Sat Nav Updates
Gogs67 posted a topic in Audio & ElectronicsHi to all I have a RAC 215 sat nav, purchased from Halfords at the beginning of 2008, however I'm finding that the installed map software is increasingly out of date, which is very frustrating to say the least :( The map software, dated 2007, is made by 66.com, and is on a removable memory card. I'm led to believe that there are 2 ways to get updated maps: 1) buy a new software pack from the manufacturer; or 2) download free updated software from the 'web onto the memory card. Can anyone point me in the right direction, i.e. where to find the downloadable software and how to update my memory card in this way? Also, does anyone know if alternative/improved mapping software can be installed, i.e. Tom tom, etc, which will run on this unit? Any advice or suggestions will be very welcome :)
Focus II Interior Door Panel Removal
Gogs67 posted a topic in Ford Focus ClubHi to all Can anyone post some step-by-step info on how to remove the front passenger door interior panel on my '55' Focus? There's a rattle coming from inside the door, and its driving me mental , so I'm hoping to whip the panel off and have a good look to se if anything's loose. I've taken the door panel off on my Mondeo several times, in order to reseal it and sort out the numerous water leaks, however I can't figure out the removal procedure on my Focus I would be grateful for any advice, info, or suggestions. Many thanks in advance ^_^
Focus Handbrake Adjustment
Gogs67 posted a topic in Ford Focus ClubHi to all I own a 2006 '55' Focus Zetec Climate, 1.6 petrol :) I'm finding that the handbrake is quite poor, in that it takes quite a bit of effort to get it to hold on even the slightest of inclines. I always leave the car in gear as a precaution, however even when applied to the very top of the handbrake lever's travel, it feels as though the car is only just holding, as the rear brakes can be heard to creak and groan :( I'm putting this problem mainly to the fact that drum brakes are fitted on the rear; however I would appreciate it if someone in the know could explain how to adjust the handbrake. Thanks in advance. Gordon
Front Seats in 04 Focus Flight
Gogs67 replied to weazil's topic in Ford Focus ClubHi Weazil Rather than the hassle of changing the seats, why don't you get them re-padded by a decent vehicle upholsterer? A few years back, I owned a VW Golf VR6 and found that the drivers seat was extremely uncomfortable to sit in for any length of time as it felt too hard. On a recommendation, I took it to an upholsterer in Edinburgh (Jim Kelly), told him what I ideally wanted, left the car with him for the best part of a day, and he transformed it into a really comfy perch. From memory I think the total cost was around £50, and for that he removed the drivers seat, took it apart, replaced all the internal padding, adjusted the side bolsters, and then reassembled everything back into the car. I've used Jim a further couple of times since then for various jobs, so can highly recommend him. If you're not close to Edinburgh, I'm sure there will be a vehicle upholsterer listed in your local yellow pages, or ask around for any recommendations. Hope this helps Gordon :)


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To Assimilate or Infiltrate: The War for (and Against) Being Undeniably Black
Danielle Belton | 1/9/2014, 9:50 a.m.
When I was in the 9th grade I wrote a cartoon strip where the heroine's name was Daphne. A white male classmate of mine who enjoyed reading my stories immediately complained that I'd give the girl a weird "black" name. I, politely, explained to him that the name was pronounced "Daff-nee" and that Daphne was a name from Greek mythology. Or, if that was too deep for him, a white female character from the cartoon "Scooby Doo."
No matter, to my "it's all black names" to me friend. It was a weird name with a weird spelling, so it was a weird "black name."
Born in 1977, before I went to the "integrated" school, I went to a mostly black elementary school full of students with a wide variety of names. Some unique and some as plain as mine was. Keisha, or some form of Keisha was, by far, one of the more popular names. There were also girls with the names Precious, Tamara, Myla, Richelle, Tamika and much more creative spellings of my own name, Danielle. There were girls more conventionally named Michelle, Tara, Yolanda, Marla and Alicia. Nothing was wrong with any of these names. So I was mildly horrified with one young woman named Keisha, in 2013, chose to legally change her name to Kylie due to teasing by her white peers.
Keisha, by the time I was in high school in 1992, was such a common name one of my younger, white teachers actually considered naming her daughter it until her husband argued her down not to. No doubt, Keisha being a "black name" probably had something to do with that, but this was how "ordinary" Keisha had become. But apparently for some, "Keisha" is still controversial, something worth teasing over. But if "Keisha" can't make it, what chance do names like LaTavia, Towanda or Quvenzhané have?
Sure, your resume may end up in the garbage. But you almost might end up singing with Beyonce and Toni Braxton respectively, while getting nominated for an Oscar at nine years old.
My parents named me Danielle the same reason why many other black parents chose to name their daughters Unique or Heaven – they were madly in love with and proud of their baby and wanted the world to know it by naming her something special. My mother told me she didn't know anyone named Danielle growing up and found the French name "beautiful" and "unique." She said I was born and she looked at me and I just "looked" like a Danielle. But at the same time, my parents didn't want my name to potentially hinder any success that might come my way. They felt I'd stand out enough being a black girl in an integrated world. I didn't need a more elaborate name to go with it. But obviously, many other black parents beg to differ. They're proud and they wear that pride in their names. It used to be that former slaves wanting to shirk the yoke of their past life dumped the last name of their masters and called themselves "Freeman" or adopted the more aspirational, "presidential" last names of Jefferson, Washington and Jackson.


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America is in a Depression but Whose Fault is that?
You may have just read the title to this blog and are left wondering "What does this have to do with weight loss?" Well my answer to that question is, "It has everything to do with it!" Did you know that 2/3 of America is considered obese? Which is not surprising being that we no longer have to fight, hunt, and kill to get our food. No not at all, we live in a time of fast food and microwaves. It's sad to say but we as humans try to find the easiest and fastest but yet not so beneficial way to do everything.


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Israel Pact Nears Completion
Israel's outgoing ambassador to the Holy See, Mordechay Lewy, has said his government and the Holy See are "very close" to signing an agreement that has taken nearly 20 years to reach.
Israel's outgoing ambassador to the Holy See, Mordechay Lewy, has said his government and the Holy See are "very close" to signing an agreement that has taken nearly 20 years to reach.
"There has been great progress on the fiscal part; we are very close to the definitive signing," Lewy said July 9. "The next meeting [of the bilateral commission] is in December, but that doesn't mean the signing cannot be done even before then."
In June, the Register reported that the long-running talks aimed at reaching an accord on outstanding issues related to the 1993 Fundamental Agreement had reached their "final stage."
A July report from Vatican Insider confirmed that an agreement could be about to take place. If so, it would allow Church institutions in Israel, which care for the many holy sites and carry out extensive humanitarian work, to operate without fear of crippling tax penalties and other legal and economic restrictions.
"I am very confident about the possibility of closing the agreement soon," Lewy said, "as I am not the only one to say it, but so, too, are Vatican sources."
He said "progress really took place only recently," adding that remaining unresolved legal issues are "not substantial." Lewy said he briefed Pope Benedict XVI on the developments when he visited him in early July.
As part of the improved relations, Israel recently lifted restrictions on visas for diplomatic passports of the Holy See.
Pave the Way Foundation, a non-sectarian organization that strives to bridge gaps between religions, intervened twice to help restart the talks, in 2003 and 2006, after they became deadlocked. Its Jewish founder, Gary Krupp, said the two parties are the "closest they've been to reaching an agreement since 1994."
He added: "The compromise is very good, from what I understand, because ecclesiastical and Church facilities are not going to be taxed, but there are entities that are for-profit that should be taxed."
Such optimism of an agreement has been voiced before, so it's perhaps best to keep celebrations on hold for now; but it does seem as though this time it's different.
Lewy, a historian and prolific author, is credited for some of the progress, as is Archbishop Antonio Franco, the outgoing papal nuncio to Israel.
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Curated by Leah Beeferman and Matthew Harvey, Parallelograms is a new online publication. For the project, Beeferman and Harvey invite an artist or collective to creatively respond to an image found online. The featured artist changes from week to week, and so far, they've worked with seven separate artists, including Everything Studio, Stephen Vitiello, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Mary Manning, Will Shapiro, Potential Estate and Duncan Malashock.
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Every day an incomprehensible number of new digital media files are uploaded to hosting sites across the internet. Far too many for any one person to consume. Infinite Glitch is a stream-of-conciousness representation of this overwhelming flood of media, its fractured and degraded sounds and images reflecting how little we as an audience are able to retain from this daily barrage.
Infinite Glitch is an automated system that generates an ever-changing audio/video stream from the constantly increasing mass of media files freely available on the web. Source audio and video files are ripped from a variety of popular media hosting sites, torn apart, and recombined using collage and glitch techniques to create an organic, chaotic flood of sensory input.
Something In The Air: Post-Industrial Ambience And The Control Society
At this point in time, it is easy to admit that we are living in a state of "etherialization." The primary characteristics of this state, as recognized by Arnold Toynbee, were that "cultures that remain static and uncreative in the human sphere often promote ingenious technical adaptations and inventions, whereas more creative cultures transmute their energies into higher and more refined forms […] their technical apparatus becomes progressively dematerialized." 1 The evidence of this is with us, simultaneously everywhere and nowhere, in the form of the internet, and also in the proliferation of increasingly miniaturized multi-purpose devices with a decreasing number of moving parts. From iPods to Oracle Database, internal organization becomes gradually more complex as the external, tangible and even visible becomes more superfluous, more symbolic than purely functional.
The Internet and the concurrent reign of digitalization are, however, just symptoms of etherialization - if particularly infectious ones - and not necessarily the driving engine of this state of affairs. The objectives of modern warfare, for example, are achieved by launching successful "psy-ops" campaigns or "p.r. offensives" which gain the international community's sympathies via successful transmission of images and sounds. Destruction of physical sites and human bodies is as cruelly present as ever, yet non-combatants' parsing of "etherealized" media imagery is no longer a sideshow to the "main" objective of laying waste to enemy infrastructure. Even terrorism, often used as a substitute term for asymmetrical warfare using "low-tech" improvisational means, regains a "symmetrical" standing here by utilizing the most high-tech information relays to accomplish its own aims: tactically, it succeeds not only because of its jolting suddenness, but because terrorists "...[schedule] their bomb blasts on time to catch the evening news…the explosion only exists because it is simultaneously coupled to a multimedia explosion." 2
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REDUX (2010) - Chris Collins
All those present at Cincinnati-based project space CS13 on Saturday, December 11th, participated in redubbing an excerpt of Jurassic Park. This included foley effects, an improvisational score, as well as dialogue. This is the result.
Mansion (2010) - Tabor Robak
Mansion is a virtual environment designed by artist Tabor Robak, exhibited as part of Jstchillin's ongoing series.
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Jonathan Turner - Director, Animation
Shawn Maximo - Architectural Design, Sculpture
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Elements of Vogue: A Conversation with Ultra-red
Ultra-red is an activist art group founded in 1994. The group proposes an alternate model for art and activism, one in which it is not the artist's critical intervention that serves as the source of cultural action, but rather that art might contribute to and challenge the process of collective organization and relationship building itself.


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City Committee Forsees Transportation Issues for Future School
BOONE COUNTY - The Columbia Area Transportation Study Organization met Wednesday to look at possible impacts on transportation at the sites for a proposed Columbia elementary school.
Tim Teddy, the Head Chairman of CATSO said the committee specifically looked at the possible transportation problems at the Potterfield site on Old South Plank Road and the Linnemeyer site on South High Point Lane, both in southwest Columbia.
"Significant upgrades would need to be made to Rout K in order for this area to support a school," said Teddy.
He said the committee had no vote on the recommendations for road improvements Wednesday. They will wait for the school to make a final decision before they vote. For now, the committee is just preparing recommendations for both sites.
Michelle Baumstark of Columbia Public Schools said the board will meet August 22 to discuss the next steps. She said the board plans to have a site picked by September.
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Soil Sisters: Female Farmers Come of Age
Jun 30, 2016 08:13AM
By Lisa Kivirist
More women are becoming farmers, bringing with them a passion for producing organic and sustainably raised fare and transforming America's food system. The U.S. Census of Agriculture reports that their numbers rose by more than 20 percent between 2002 and 2012, to 288,264.
Historic Roots
"Women have played an integral role in farming for centuries, but in the last 100 years they've started to self-organize and be recognized for their important work," says University of California garden historian Rose Hayden-Smith, Ph.D., author of Sowing the Seeds of Victory: American Gardening Programs of World War I and editor of the UC Food Observer. "During that war, the Women's Land Army of America, a female-led initiative, recruited nearly 20,000 mostly middle-class urban and suburban women to enter the agricultural sector as wage laborers at farms, dairies and canneries, often in rural areas, where farmers urgently needed help while the male labor force was off fighting."
Women also helped feed Americans during the Victory Garden era of World War II. "It's also estimated that more than 40 percent of fruits and vegetables consumed on the American home front then were grown in school, home, community and workplace gardens," says Hayden-Smith, possibly resulting in America's highest period of produce consumption ever.
When the commercial organic industry launched in the 1990s, women organized to provide overlooked and undervalued perspectives. The wakeup call for Denise O'Brien, an organic vegetable farmer and owner of Rolling Hills Acres, near Atlantic, Iowa, came during the farm economic crisis of the preceding decade. Although still considered "just" farm wives, "It was the women on the farms that had foreseen where things were heading, because they often kept the accounting books, though nobody took their voices seriously," O'Brien recalls.
This launched O'Brien's agriculture activism: balancing farming, raising children and serving as a national advocate and spokeswoman for women in agriculture in an ecological and just food system. In 1997, she launched the Women, Food and Ag Network to collectively advocate for a stronger voice.
"Throughout history, women in agriculture have been relegated to providing assistance, rather than making decisions," O'Brien explains. "It's up to us as women to collaboratively support each other while challenging the system."
Cultivating Change
For her 50th birthday, Paula Foreman gave her life a new chapter. She launched her midlife "second act" in 2007 with Encore Farm, a name that serves as a rallying mantra for her peers. "The name is a tribute declaring that fresh starts and new beginnings can happen at any age," explains Foreman, now an urban farmer in St. Paul, Minnesota. Embodying this business moxie, she chose to specialize, producing one thing very well: organic dried beans.
Innovation, independence and vision drive women to use their organic farm ventures to create a livelihood, express themselves and do their part to change how America eats.
Relinda Walker, of Walker Organic Farms, outside Savannah, Georgia, represents a cadre of "boomerang" farmers; women that return to the land to continue a family farm with a commitment to organics. Like many farm kids, after college, Walker left to pursue a corporate career in the city. Then the 9/11 terror attack shifted her priorities. "All roads led me to coming back home and growing food," she says. Launched in 2005, Walker's farm was one of southern Georgia's first organic operations, yielding specialty varieties like rainbow carrots in vivid shades of purple, orange and red.
Future Femme Power
Young women in their 20s and 30s are adding energy, diversity, vibrancy and fresh outlooks to the female farming movement. Lindsey Morris Carpenter runs Grassroots Farm, in Monroe, Wisconsin, a diversified operation of certified organic vegetables and pastured livestock, in partnership with her mother, Gail Carpenter.
"A crucial key to farming happiness is being a good neighbor," she shares. "I call around when I see livestock and pets outside of fences; maintain my fences; share my garlic and potato seed; and always invite neighbors to parties and events, even though they may not attend. Even if others' personal lifestyle and farming philosophies are radical opposites, we still have our physical location and appreciation of nature in common, and that's big."
"The women farmer movement is just a toddler," sums up O'Brien. "We've come a long way, but we're not there yet, especially with representation on the national leadership platform." It's easy to support female growers at local farmers' markets. Cultivating change can be rewarding—and tasty.
Lisa Kivirist is the author of the new book Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Farmers and a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture. Her family runs the energy-independent Inn Serendipity Farm and B&B, in southwestern Wisconsin.


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I sort of have a problem when trying to do this…
First of all my engine uses deferred lighting(still it shouldn't make any difference).
So I made a really nice terrain but give the way it works I have to use a normal map for it. I only have a height map so I have to convert the heightmap into a normalmap.
Currently I have this code for converting:
for(int Y=1;Y<image->sizeX-1;Y++)
for(int X=1;X<image->sizeY-1;X++)
float v1 = image->GetImageHeight(X,Y-1)*scale;
float v2 = image->GetImageHeight(X-1,Y)*scale;
float v3 = image->GetImageHeight(X+1,Y+1)*scale;
CVector3 n1 = (CVector3(1,v3,1)-CVector3(0,v1,-1)).cross(CVector3(1,v3,1)-CVector3(-1,v2,0));
CVector3 normal = n1;
unsigned char r, g, b;
r = (BYTE)(255.0 * (normal.x * 0.5 + 0.5));
g = (BYTE)(255.0 * (normal.y * 0.5 + 0.5));
b = (BYTE)(255.0 * (normal.z * 0.5 + 0.5));
norm->data[Y*image->sizeX*3+X*3] = r;
norm->data[Y*image->sizeX*3+X*3+1] = g;
norm->data[Y*image->sizeX*3+X*3+2] = b;
It basically takes 3 near adjacent pixels transforms them into 3 3d points with the height(y value) being the height from the heightmap as a float multiplied by the maximum height in the terrain so that all the vertexes will be just like in the terrain.
Interesting problem is that when I run it my normal map looks chunky.
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Hinduism 2: Modern Hinduism: Session One
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Dr Rembert Lutjeharms
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Beginning with the early medieval period, this paper traces the development of Hinduism in devotional (bhakti) and tantric traditions. The paper examines the development of Śaiva, Śākta, and Vaiṣṇava traditions along with ideas about liberation, ritual, asceticism, yoga and devotion. There will be some exploration of Hinduism and Modernity and there may also be reference to major schools of Hindu philosophy such as Vedānta.


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Thy purple round me, till my heart shall grow
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Do You Have a Small Fortune in an IRA?
Escape the double-tax monster and build a tax-free future for your family.
Are you a high-net-worth taxpayer (in the highest income tax and estate tax brackets)? Is one of your significant assets $1 million or more in a qualified plan such as an IRA, 401(k), profit-sharing or similar plan?
Those big numbers in your plan sound good, but have you ever done the dreadful tax math? To make it easy, suppose you take one dollar out of your plan. The IRS gets 35 cents in income tax, and you have 65 cents left. When you go to the big business in the sky, the IRS socks you again for estate taxes, this time for 55 percent of that 65 cents (using 2013 rates) or another 35 cents.
So the double-tax monster gets 70 cents, and your family only gets a paltry 30 cents. Congress may change the tax rates, raising or lowering the results, but one thing is certain: The double-tax monster will be well-fed.
How much will it cost your family?
Take a moment to estimate your tax loss. If you have $1 million in your plan, the tax collector gets $700,000 and your family gets $300,000—a true tax tragedy. In addition, your state of residence (except for the few tax-free states) gets an additional piece of the tax action.
Let's follow the plan money, first during your life and then after.
You may not need your plan funds to maintain your lifestyle, but, like it or not, after you reach age 70½ you must take a required minimum distribution (RMD), starting at 3.65 percent of your plan balance the first year.
By now you know the drill: Those RMDs will someday be clobbered by estate taxes. But the real villain is income in respect of a decedent (IRD). This is the amount in your plan on the day you die, and it's double-taxed. Simply put, RMD and IRD are designed to literally but legally steal your plan dollars.
You can beat these two tax bandits, however.
Roth IRA to the Rescue
A Roth IRA is the key for married couple Joe and Mary to destroy the double-tax monster. Here are a couple of basic rules concerning these plans:
1. A rollover can be made from a traditional IRA or another qualified plan, like a 401(k), profit-sharing, pension and the like, to a Roth IRA.
2. The full amount rolled over to the Roth IRA is taxed as ordinary income at the time of the rollover. The rollover can be made at any age without penalty
After Joe dies, Mary rolls over Joe's IRA to a Roth IRA. Mary is now the owner of the Roth IRA and can take income-tax-free distributions as she pleases. Since no RMDs are required, the funds continue to grow tax-free for as long as Mary lives.
At Mary's death, the Roth IRA is included in her estate and subject only to estate taxes. Mary makes her children the beneficiaries of her Roth IRA, which must be completely distributed within five years of her death or can be paid out annually as RMD over the lives of the beneficiaries, starting the year after Mary dies. All distributions are income-tax-free.
How to Kill the Double-Tax Monster
We call this strategy the Double-Tax Reverse:
1. During Joe's life:
a) Joe makes Mary the beneficiary of his IRA. (All of Joe's qualified plans would be rolled into one IRA.)
b) Joe estimates the amount of income tax that will be due when Mary converts to a Roth IRA. (Let's say the estimated tax will be $1 million.)
c) Joe buys a $1 million life insurance policy, naming Mary the beneficiary. (Once Joe reaches 70½, the RMDs can be used to pay the premiums.)
2. At Joe's death:
a) Mary completes a spousal rollover of Joe's IRA, which is a tax-free transaction.
b) Mary converts all or part of the funds in her spousal IRA to a Roth IRA. Mary names her children, grandchildren or trusts for their benefit as the beneficiaries of the new Roth IRA.
c) Mary receives the $1 million from Joe's insurance policy tax-free and uses it to pay for the income tax due on the Roth IRA conversion.
Substitute your name, your spouse's name and the estimated amount of your plan funds in the above example, and you will enjoy three tax victories: 1) no income tax when the Roth IRA conversion is done; 2) a tax-free piggy bank for your spouse for the rest of his or her life; and 3) tax-free distributions to your heirs.
The exact amount this strategy will prevent from being lost to the IRS depends on the rate
of return in your Roth IRA and how long the
account funds have to compound. For example, using the Rule of 72, if your accounts earn
4 percent, the amount in the Roth IRA will
double every 16 years. Instead of losing about
70 percent of your fund to the IRS, your $1 million will grow to $2 million, and every dollar is
Be smart. Look into a Double-Tax Reverse. If you have a large amount in your qualified plans, there is an organized way to legally beat the double-tax monster and build tax-free wealth for your family.


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House Democrats Choose Dishonesty
I'm not a fan of the House Democrats' proposed takeover of the health care sector. (If there's one thing that legislation is not, it's "reform.") But at least House Democrats were honest enough to include the cost of the $245 billion bump in Medicare physician payments in their legislation, unlike some committee chairmen I could mention.
Unfortunately, House Democrats have since decided that dishonesty is the better strategy. They, like Senate Democrats, now plan to strip that additional Medicare spending out of health "reform" and enact it separately. (Democrats are already trying to exempt that spending from pay‐as‐you‐go rules, making it easier for them to expand our record federal deficits.) Why enact it separately? Because excising that spending from the "reform" legislation reduces the cost of health "reform"!
But why stop there? Heck, enact all the new spending separately, and the cost of "reform" would plummet! Enact the new Medicaid spending separately, and the cost of "reform" would fall by $438 billion! Do it with the subsidies to private health insurance companies, and the cost of "reform" would plunge by $773 billion! All that would be left of "reform" would be tax increases and Medicare payment cuts. Health "reform" would dramatically reduce federal deficits! Huzzah!
Except it wouldn't, because at the end of the day Congress would be spending the same amount of money.
The only good news may be this. If this dishonest budget gimmick succeeds, then Congress will have "fixed" Medicare's physician payments. Absent that "must pass" legislation, the Democrats health care takeover would lose momentum, and would have to stand on its own merit. That would be good for the Republic, though not for the legislation.
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text: Haynes returns home 10/05/2012 See All News Pro Football Hall of Fame cornerback Mike Haynes, a nine-time Pro Bowl selection with the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Raiders, was honored Wednesday as a Hometown Hall of Famer™ by the Hall of Fame and Allstate Insurance Company. A special plaque ceremony took place at Haynes' alma mater John Marshall High School in Los Angeles as Haynes was presented the historic hometown plaque in front of a full auditorium of more than 800 students, friends, family, and community members. Photo 1 of 4 Presenting Haynes with his plaque was Los Angeles City Councilman and former teammate and lifelong friend, Tom LaBonge, who shared stories about their childhood and playing football at John Marshall High School. To the crowd's delight, the two reenacted a play on the stage where LaBonge hiked the ball to Haynes who then threw the ball to the football team seated in the crowd. "The key today is we are relating to someone who sat where you sat," said LaBonge. "We're relating to someone who worked hard every day and had great work habits. He got knocked down and got back up." After the plaque was unveiled, Haynes took the stage to thank all in attendance. He focused on the importance of community and delivered a message to students about goal setting. "My goals were too low and I was lucky – I am a diamond in the rough," said Haynes. "You need to dream big, set big goals, and keep going after them." In addition to the plaque, a commemorative Mike Haynes Hometown Hall of Famer™ road sign will be on display in Los Angeles. "This plaque represents the spirit of hard work and community that helped Mike get to the Pro Football Hall of Fame," said George Veras, president and CEO of Pro Football Hall of Fame Enterprises. "That same spirit exists today at John Marshall High School and take advantage of that, like Mike did, to become a Hall of Famer in your own chosen path." Other special guests in attendance included school board member Bennet Kayser; Paul Salata, a former player with the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Colts in 1949-1950 and known for creating the "Mr. Irrelevant Award;" and local Allstate agent Charles Stewart. "What a better way to show our pride for where Allstaters and our customers live and work than to have a program like this that honors the legacy of a professional football legend like Mike Haynes and brings his family to where it all began here in his hometown at John Marshall High School," said Stewart. A three-year All-WAC star at Arizona State University, Haynes was the New England Patriots' first round pick, fifth overall and first defensive back chosen, in the 1976 NFL Draft. He became an elite defensive back and punt return specialist by relying on his speed, quickness and range. In a remarkable rookie year with the Patriots, he snagged eight interceptions and an AFC-leading 608 yards on 45 punt returns. That year, Haynes gave the Patriots their first-ever touchdown on punt returns with 89-yard and 62-yard returns. The first of his nine Pro Bowl invitations came as a rookie, and he went on to be named first-team All-Pro four times and an All-AFC pick eight times. In late 1983, Haynes moved across the country to his hometown of Los Angeles, where he spent the second half of his Hall of Famer career as a member of the Los Angeles Raiders. Haynes played the last five games of the 1983 season for the Raiders and recorded an interception in the team's Super Bowl XVII victory over the Washington Redskins. Haynes, a member of the NFL's All-Decade Team of the 1980s and to the NFL's 75th Anniversary All-Time Team, was enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1997. Watch ceremony highlights>>> Back to news


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University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. in Anthropology, 2008.
Dissertation: Embodying Life and Death: Osteobiographical Narratives from Alalakh.
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Pomona College, B.A., cum laude, in History (minor in Classics), 2000.
Courses Taught at Sonoma State
Archaeology and the Bible
Forensic Anthropology Methods
Forensic Anthropology Theory and Practice
Graduate Proseminar
Human Osteology
Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Organization of Societies
Society and Culture Undergraduate Research Forum: Planning and Publication
How to Think Like a Social Scientist (Sophomore Year Experience)
To put it simply, I am a bioarchaeologist: I recover and analyze human remains from archaeological settings. My research focuses on ancient Near Eastern, Gulf, and eastern Mediterranean, which I have cultivated through fieldwork in Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, and Crete. I have also worked on osteological collections at the British Museum, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum, and Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology.
To put it less simply, I am a broadly trained anthropologist whose research draws from biological anthropology, archaeology, and social theory, thus bridging the anthropological subfields. I use human skeletal remains, archaeological contexts, and ancient texts to explore embodied personhood in all of its iterations --gender, sex, age, class, kin relations, religion, etc. etc. etc. I interpret these personhoods by means of fictive osteobiographical narratives, which are framed in terms of a life course model.
Much of my upper division teaching is oriented around human skeletal biology and its analysis by means of forensic methods. In addition to the lower division G.E. course Introduction to Biological Anthropology, my upper division offerings include Human Osteology, Bioarchaeology, and Forensic Anthropology. Much of my advising at Sonoma State is oriented toward students' burgeoning interest in Forensic Sciences, which they can learn more about here.
I am the co-director of the Dilmun Bioarchaeology Project.
From 1940-41, Peter B. Cornwall, a graduate student at Harvard University, excavated and surveyed regions that once comprised the ancient polity of Dilmun, known today as the kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Cornwall excavated multiple prehistoric settlements throughout central and eastern Saudi Arabia and also excavated thirty-five burial mounds around the island of Bahrain. From the latter, he recovered human skeletons (representing at least 32 individuals), faunal remains, and associated objects. Upon returning to the United States with this material, Cornwall published portions of the data in his Ph.D. dissertation and other journal articles. The entire collection was deposited in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley in 1945. Although the skeletal materials were catalogued in 1965 and inventoried during the museum's efforts to be NAGPRA compliant during the 1980s-90s, funds were not available for their analysis. No subsequent record of research on the collection has been found.
In Fall 2008, I came across this collection while perusing the Hearst Museum's card catalog. Joining forces with Benjamin W. Porter (Department of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley), the Dilmun Bioarchaeology Project (DBP) was initiated to conduct a comprehensive, interdisciplinary bioarchaeological analysis of the skeletal and artifactual remains from Cornwall's expedition. A team of scholars with unique talents and complimentary research interests was assembled that consists of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and professionals. It includes individuals from a number of institutions, with interests ranging from bioarchaeology and Near Eastern Studies, to zooarchaeology and scientific illustration.
Each year since 2009, undergrads from Sonoma State joined the DBP to get hands-on experience with human skeletal remains and/or artifacts. From August 15-October 13, 2013 the DBP was the subject of a fantastic exhibit at the Sonoma State University Library entitled From Death to Life in Ancient Bahrain. Since then, it has traveled to the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology and the Sacramento State Anthropology Museum.
DBP Research Assistants Extraordinaire 2009-2013: Taylor Allcock, Amy Brandon Sears, Bianca Brenes, Emily Carleton, Mary Beth Glisson, Whitney McClellan, Natalie Sadler, Daniel Cusimano, Jessica Ruddell, Kayla Garry
Emmy and Natalie on the job
Here are a few of the other fabulous projects I have been involved with...
Excavations at Alalakh (Turkey)
Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project (Cyprus)
Excavations at Tell el-Far'ah South (Israel)
Recent Publications and Presentations
(also see my page on Academia.edu)
Books and Edited Volumes
|Benjamin W. Porter and Alexis T. Boutin, editors. Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East: Recent Contributions from Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Archaeology. University of Colorado Press.
|Aubrey Baadsgaard, Alexis T. Boutin, and Jane E. Buikstra, editors. Breathing New Life into the Evidence of Death: Contemporary Approaches to Bioarchaeology. School for Advanced Research Press.
Selected Articles
|In prep.
|Alexis T. Boutin. Working title: "What Should Bioarchaeology Be? A New Perspective on Bioarchaeology's Disciplinary Divide: Past, Present, and Future."
|Alexis T. Boutin. Exploring the Social Construction of Disability in the Past: An Application of the Bioarchaeology of Personhood Model to a Pathological Skeleton from Ancient Bahrain. International Journal of Paleopathology 12: 17-28.
|Alexis T. Boutin, Gloria L. Nusse, Sabrina B. Sholts, and Benjamin W. Porter. "Face to Face With the Past: Reconstructing a Teenage Boy from Early Dilmun," Near Eastern Archaeology 75(2): 68-79.
|Benjamin W. Porter and Alexis T. Boutin. "The Dilmun Bioarchaeology Project: A first look at the Peter B. Cornwall Collection at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum," Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 23: 35-49.
Book Chapters
|Under review
|Benjamin W. Porter and Alexis T. Boutin. "The Elders of Dilmun: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Masculinity from the Peter B. Cornwall Collection." In Life and Death in Ancient Arabia: Mortuary and Bioarchaeological Perspectives. L. Gregoricka and K. Williams, eds. University Press of Florida.
|Alexis T. Boutin, Whitney R. McClellan, and Daniel A. Cusimano. "Life and Death at Tell en-Nasbeh: A Bioarchaeological Analysis." In "As for me, I will dwell at Mizpah ...": The Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations after 85 Years. A. Brody and J. R. Zorn, eds. Gorgias Press, pp. 31-58.
|Alexis T. Boutin and Benjamin W. Porter. "Commemorating Disability in Early Dilmun: Ancient and Contemporary Tales from the Peter B. Cornwall Collection." In Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East. B.W. Porter and A.T. Boutin, eds. University Press of Colorado, pp. 97-132.
|Benjamin W. Porter and Alexis T. Boutin. "Introduction: Bringing Out the Dead in the Ancient Near East." In Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East. B.W. Porter and A.T. Boutin, eds. University Press of Colorado, pp. 1-25.
Alexis T. Boutin and Michael Given, editors. Chapter 3: "The Karkotis Valley." In Landscape and Interaction: the Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project, Cyprus. Volume 2: The TAESP Landscape. M. Given, A. B. Knapp, L. Sollars, J. Noller, and V. Kassianidou, eds. Council for British Research in the Levant, pp. 51-151.
Alexis T. Boutin. "Written in Stone, Written in Bone: The Osteobiography of a Bronze Age Craftsman from Alalakh." In The Bioarchaeology of Individuals, A. L.W. Stodder and A. M. Palkovich, eds. University Press of Florida, pp. 193-214.
|Alexis T. Boutin. "Crafting a Bioarchaeology of Personhood: Osteobiographical Narratives from Alalakh." In Breathing New Life into the Evidence of Death, A. Baadsgaard, A. T. Boutin, and J. E. Buikstra, eds. School for Advanced Research Press, pp. 109-133.
|Jane E. Buikstra, Aubrey Baadsgaard, and Alexis T. Boutin. "Introduction." In Breathing New Life into the Evidence of Death, A. Baadsgaard, A. T. Boutin, and J. E. Buikstra, eds. School for Advanced Research Press, pp. 3-26.
|Alexis T. Boutin. "The Burials." In Tell Atchana, Ancient Alalakh, Volume I: The 2003-2004 Excavation Seasons. K.A. Yener, ed. Istanbul: Koç Universitesi Yayınları, pp. 111-121.
Reviews and Reports
|Review of "Bioarchaeology and Behavior: The People of the Ancient Near East," ed. Megan A. Perry. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 371: 214-215.
Review of "Social Bioarchaeology," ed. Sabrina C. Agarwal and Bonnie A. Glencross. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 22 (1): 135-136.
|Michael D. Meyer, Alexis T. Boutin, and Michael Stoyka. "Results of Human Remains Recovery at the Abalone Point Waterfall Site, Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California." Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. Prepared for Point Reyes National Seashore.
|Benjamin W. Porter and Alexis T. Boutin. "The Peter B. Cornwall Collection, P.A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology: Collections Assessment." University of California eScholarship.
|Review of "Sacred Spaces: Religious Architecture in the Ancient World," by G.J. Wightman. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19 (2): 284-286.
Partial List of Conference Symposia and Presentations
|Rudy Dinarte, Madison Long, Erica Thompson, and Alexis T. Boutin, "Building a Better Bioarchaeology Through Community Collaboration: Three Case Studies." Poster to be presented at the Western Bioarchaeology Group annual meeting, Sonoma State University, October 2016.
|Invited discussant, "Strange Bodies, Familiar Divides: Embodiments of Otherness." American Anthropological Association annual meetings, Denver, November 2015
|"Narrativizing a Bioarchaeology of Care: A Case Study from Ancient Dilmun." Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology annual meetings, San Francisco, April 2015.
|"Perspectives on Life and Death from Dilmun: Recent Research on the Peter B. Cornwall Collection" Paper to be presented at the American Schools of Oriental Research annual meetings, San Diego, November 2014.
|"Archaeology Should Be Bioarchaeology (Or Should It?)." Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology annual meetings, Austin, April 2014.
|"Osteobiography of a Body with Disabilities from Ancient Bahrain." Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association annual meetings, San Francisco, November 2012.
|Alexis T. Boutin and Whitney McClellan, "Collection, Curation, and Commingling: The Stories of Two Near Eastern Museum Assemblages." Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology annual meetings, Memphis, April 2012.
|Alexis T. Boutin and Whitney McClellan, "Bioarchaeological Analysis of Human Remains from Tell en-Nasbeh." Paper presented at the American Schools of Oriental Research annual meetings, San Francisco, November 2011.
|Alexis T. Boutin and Benjamin W. Porter, "Dying in Dilmun: Revisiting the Peter B. Cornwall Collection." Paper presented at the American Schools of Oriental Research annual meetings, San Francisco, November 2011.
|Co-organizer (with Benjamin W. Porter) of symposium, "Remembering and Commemorating: The Mortuary Archaeology and Bioarchaeology of Ancient Near Eastern Societies." Held at the Society for American Archaeology annual meetings, Sacramento, April 2011.
|Alexis T. Boutin and Benjamin W. Porter, "Dying in Dilmun: Revisiting the Peter B. Cornwall Collection." Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology annual meetings, Sacramento, April 2011.
|Invited discussant, "The Future of Bioarchaeology: A Forum in Honor of Jane E. Buikstra, the 2010 Fryxell Award Winner." Held at the Society for American Archaeology annual meetings, Sacramento, April 2011.
|Colleen Morgan, Alexis T. Boutin, Sheel Jagani, and Benjamin W. Porter, "Old Bones, Digital Narratives: Re-Investigating the Cornwall Collection in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum." Paper presented at the 9th International Conference of UMAC (University Museums and Collections), Berkeley, September 2009.


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Hatha Yoga focuses on the third and fourth limb of yoga and therefore is a popular yoga choice in today's fitness community. It is a generic term that refers to any type of yoga that teaches physical postures coupled with breathing.
Benefits of Hatha Yoga
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It can be a great stress reliever and is helpful in detoxifying mind and body. After a tiring day at work or at school, try one or two repetitions of Suryanamaskar followed by some deep breathing. You will immediately notice a sense of calmness.
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Prana is a type of energy in the human body. It means 'Universal life Force'. Each human being is born with a certain amount of energy which is responsible for the body's life and maintenance. Over time and usage, this prana diminishes and makes the body weak. Breathing techniques and yogic postures helps in regulating and maintaining this vital form of energy, hence increasing the longevity of life.
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Healthy muscles allow us to move freely and keep our body strong. Building muscle strength helps in keeping joints in good shape preventing various ailments like arthritis. Strong muscles also help in maintaining the balance of the body especially during old age.
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Do you face difficulty in focusing during a lecture or presentation? Try Hatha yoga! Holding asanas require focus and deep breathing in order to balance the body, thereby making the mind more alert and sharp.
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